2017-2018 Summary

All Students Ready for Kindergarten

Goal:

The percentage of pre-kindergarten four-year-olds living in the Montevideo school district during the year prior to enrollment in Kindergarten who have an opportunity to attend a preschool in 2017-18 will continue to be above to 90% in the fall of 2018.

Result:

90% of students in Kindergarten in the fall of 2018 (that have lived in Montevideo during the previous year) have attended preschool.

All Students in Third Grade Achieving Grade-Level Literacy

Goal:

The percentage of third grade students that meet or exceed reading standards on the MCA tests will increase from 61% to 63% or higher in the 2017-2018 school year. Also the percentage of students in grades 1-3 that meet or exceed NWEA spring to spring reading growth goals will continue to increase for our 5 year goal (improving from 45% in year one and growing to 59% in year 5) and meet or exceed 55% in 2018.

Result:

The percent of third grade students who met or exceeded reading standards on the MCA tests in 2018 was 59.2%

The growth for students in grades 1-3 that met or exceeded NWEA Spring to Spring reading growth was 52% in 2017-18.

Close the Achievement Gap(s) Among All Groups

Goal:

The gap between the FRP students and the Non-FRP students in math will decrease so that at the end of the 2017-2018 school year, there will only be a gap of 21% as compared to 24.5% in 2017 as demonstrated on the MCA III by the following proficiency rate increases.

Non-FRP proficiency rates will increase from 69.7% in 2017 to 72.0% in 2018

FRP proficiency rates will increase from 45.2% in 2017 to 51% in 2018

Result:

Although the "gap" was reduced to 15.5%, we did see non-FRP rates go down while FRP rates went up.

Non-FRP proficiency rates declined to 65.5% in 2018

FRP proficiency rates rose to 50.0%

All Students Career- and College-Ready by Graduation

Goal:

The percentage of all students enrolled October 1 in grade 8 at Montevideo Public Schools who earn an achievement level of Meets the Standards or Exceeds the Standards in mathematics on all state accountability tests (MCA, MTAS) will increase from 42.1% in 2016 to 58.2% by the Spring of 2020. In 2018, 51.1% will meet or exceed the state standards.

By the end of the 2017-2018 school year, Montevideo Senior High School will maintain the overall graduation rate of all students to above 95%, and the graduation rate of FRP students will continue to be above 90%.